Keep Ya Head Up

Growing up in a town of about 5,000 people cultural differences were few and far between. Everyone in my town was pretty similar; white, catholic, and family oriented. Many days I wondered how I could expand my knowledge of other cultures. Then, my junior year of high school, the opportunity to attend a mission trip through my parish came about. Catholic Heart Workcamp, often referred to as CHWC, was the name of the program. This program stations in different states each year, focusing…

completely. I went from thinking I had a leg up in discussion to being in way over my head with just a few pages of notes. It was intimidating. There…

Characters: Kim→ 22, senior college student, who moved into a new town Brian→ 25, Kim’s boyfriend who is out of town. Jim→ Kim’s coworker at the food mart. Jerry→ Kim’s manager at the food mart. Michelle→ Jim’s new neighbor. Scene 1 [Lights up on an apartment in the middle of Fort Collins, Colorado. Kim is moving into her studio apartment for her last semester of college with the help of her boyfriend, Brian] Brian. Are you sure it was a good idea to move away from everyone? I…

and that's what got him in trouble at the end of the play. That's the thing i hate about Raoul the most is how careless he gets. He doesn’t care about anyone or anything but himself. He thinks he loves and cares about Christine but it's all in his head, he really only cares about himself. Raoul was very pushy and controlling of Christine. He was always trying to get her to do what he wants like when he asked her to marry him. He really didn’t give her a choice at all. At the end of the play to…

Steinbeck 22). George does not want any trouble, so he tells Lennie, “You try to keep away from him, will you? Don’t never speak to him. If he comes in here you move clear to the other side of the room . . . If Curley wants to plug himself up for a fight. Just don’t have nothing to do with him”(Steinbeck 29). However, one day Curley starts a fight with Lennie because he thought he was laughing at him, “Come on, ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at…

Revenge for the Devil I never thought I’d be running through hell with only one arm; fleeing the demons that get off on torturing the souls of the damned. Let’s clear one thing up, they don’t carry around little pitchforks. They prefer tools that can cause more damage, like a hatchet or a sharp blade or two. As I run madly, I get a whiff of the oceans filled with vomit, bile, and the blood leaked out of the tortured. I don’t know if I’ll ever find a way out. You see, Dante was wrong.…

Holden has left to turn to happens to be Ackley. 2. Holden suddenly decides to leave for New York a couple days early from release. 3. As the teenage boy exits the halls of Pencey he decides, “’I yelled at the top of my goddam voice, 'Sleep tight, ya morons!'" (52). 4. Although Holden shows much contempt towards Pencey, there is still part of him that appreciates the school for all it has given him. 5. Holden had received money from his grandmother and parents. Chapter Eight: 1. Mothers in…

Slaughterhouse Five Should Not Be Banned Tools are important. Hammers, screwdrivers, and drills all help to make improvements. Tools do not necessarily have to be hardware, however. Books, for example, are also tools. Books are some of the greatest tools in education. They relay information, present new ideas, and provide examples of great writing. Although the books that teachers select for classroom use are valuable resources, many people often attempt to ban them from schools. One such book…

Eli melted into the shadows as he slid along the side of the building. He’d tracked Logan all the way to Buenos Aries and sensed the archangel had been hiding out inside one of the many shanties, which made up the run down part of what locals called, villas miserias. Though this wasn’t the worst place he’d ever seen, he was still disgusted that people would allow their fellow humans to live in such squalor. However, these poor living conditions attracted many of the fallen. They thrived on…

Wyoming, Illinois is a representation of a small farming community. It sits among acres of old, history filled corn, wheat and bean fields about thirty minutes from the “big” city. My first childhood home sat on a corner. The old home used to belong to my great grandparents, but was currently occupied by my mom, sister and two cats. I looked over to my mom, “Can I go to the grocery store?” I asked her. Turning from her book, “What do you need?”. “Oh, I don’t know, I want candy”. “Okay, there…